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Jul. 26th, 2001 11:50 amI planned to write up both yesterday and today... so I'll try.
Yesterday morning was okay - the office I was working in didn't have a radio, and wasn't any better for concentration 'cos the phone (I wasn't meant to answer it at all even if ppl were out of the office, thankfully - I hate phones) just wouldn't stop ringing, but the random stuff was about the same and easy to slip into a pattern of doing, which I like. Interrupted for a good five minutes by an annoying wasp that just wouldn't leave the office - the lady sitting at the desk behind me kept saying she'd go after it with a magazine in a minute, but eventually it flew out of its own accord and we got back to work.
I'd basically finished everything by lunch, tho, apart from less than half a dozen anomolies that took about five minutes to squish after lunch. There was meant to be something else for me to do after this (installing StarOffice on about 20 computers 'cos they don't have enough Office licenses and one of the conditions of the sale they're going through is that all their software is to be legal - by the end of this week, no less), but the person responsible for compiling the list of people that should have it (the Access-alike was having nothing to do with the Micross-linked, real-time updating database, so only ppl who didn't use Access could have it) hadn't done so, so there was a meeting where he was told precisely how urgent this all was, but then there wasn't really anything for me to do. (Phew, that was a long sentance.)
So I ended up doing 'Stock Taking', which basically involved counting umptillion thousand little squiddly bits of plastic and wire. There were some scales that worked out from a sample of about ten what the unit weight was that the squiddly bits could be emptied onto, but it often took half a dozen loads to count them all, and either the wires or the random sharp bits in the bottom of the boxes gave me tons of paper-cut type scratches all over my hands, one of which bled.
I wasn't impressed, which is why I'm at home now... I didn't want to go in again and end up counting umptillion more little squiddly bits, and it's not as if I need the money or anything, especially now the school were kind enough to send a nice letter detailing all my lost textbooks so my lovely parents are going to pay half of that anyway (payment for having to be nagged about them?).
And later that evening I worked out that I'd lost the password I put in when I installed my mysql stuff, and for some obscure reason it wasn't any of my set of 'usual' ones - as it isn't anything I actually care about making secure, I'm not sure why I'd've put an odd password on it, and I remember having this problem before and it wasn't the password afterall, but I actually knew the password then - I can't be sure it's not me having forgotten it this time, and I can't remember how we solved it anyhow. So I've got to reinstall that, basically.
I'll post this and start another about today.
Yesterday morning was okay - the office I was working in didn't have a radio, and wasn't any better for concentration 'cos the phone (I wasn't meant to answer it at all even if ppl were out of the office, thankfully - I hate phones) just wouldn't stop ringing, but the random stuff was about the same and easy to slip into a pattern of doing, which I like. Interrupted for a good five minutes by an annoying wasp that just wouldn't leave the office - the lady sitting at the desk behind me kept saying she'd go after it with a magazine in a minute, but eventually it flew out of its own accord and we got back to work.
I'd basically finished everything by lunch, tho, apart from less than half a dozen anomolies that took about five minutes to squish after lunch. There was meant to be something else for me to do after this (installing StarOffice on about 20 computers 'cos they don't have enough Office licenses and one of the conditions of the sale they're going through is that all their software is to be legal - by the end of this week, no less), but the person responsible for compiling the list of people that should have it (the Access-alike was having nothing to do with the Micross-linked, real-time updating database, so only ppl who didn't use Access could have it) hadn't done so, so there was a meeting where he was told precisely how urgent this all was, but then there wasn't really anything for me to do. (Phew, that was a long sentance.)
So I ended up doing 'Stock Taking', which basically involved counting umptillion thousand little squiddly bits of plastic and wire. There were some scales that worked out from a sample of about ten what the unit weight was that the squiddly bits could be emptied onto, but it often took half a dozen loads to count them all, and either the wires or the random sharp bits in the bottom of the boxes gave me tons of paper-cut type scratches all over my hands, one of which bled.
I wasn't impressed, which is why I'm at home now... I didn't want to go in again and end up counting umptillion more little squiddly bits, and it's not as if I need the money or anything, especially now the school were kind enough to send a nice letter detailing all my lost textbooks so my lovely parents are going to pay half of that anyway (payment for having to be nagged about them?).
And later that evening I worked out that I'd lost the password I put in when I installed my mysql stuff, and for some obscure reason it wasn't any of my set of 'usual' ones - as it isn't anything I actually care about making secure, I'm not sure why I'd've put an odd password on it, and I remember having this problem before and it wasn't the password afterall, but I actually knew the password then - I can't be sure it's not me having forgotten it this time, and I can't remember how we solved it anyhow. So I've got to reinstall that, basically.
I'll post this and start another about today.
